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Trump says he should have role in picking Irans next leader
“We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran,” he told Axios on Thursday, adding that he thought the Ayatollah’s son Mojtaba Khamenei was a “lightweight”. “I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy,” he said, referring to Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez, whom he named after US forces kidnapped…
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Anthropic endangers US national security
US Special Operations forces captured Nicolás Maduro in a pre-dawn raid in Caracas on January 3rd. The mission reportedly utilized the military’sMaven Smart System, which is built byPalantirand has Anthropic’sClaudemodel embedded for data analysis and targeting. Claude is a powerful AI engine. A month later, in February, Anthropic pushed back at Palantir, demanding that their…
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Oscar-Nominated Documentary Cutting Through Rocks Among Athena Film Festival Award Winners (Exclusive)
The 2026 Athena Film Festival has selected this year’s honorees. Oscar-nominated documentary Cutting Through Rocks, directed by Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni, received the Jaya Award in partnership with the Illumine Service Foundation, a $10,000 prize given to a film focused on women’s leadership. Happy Birthday director Sarah Goher is being honored with the $25,000…
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OpenAIs new GPT-5.4 clobbers humans on pro-level work in tests – by 83%
OpenAI Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways GPT-5.4’s 83% score suggests AI rivals expert professionals. Tests span nine industries and 44 real-world occupations. New capabilities boost coding, tools, and computer control. It seems like only yesterday that OpenAI released its GPT-5.2 model to the world. In fact, it’s…
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For Putin, Trumps Iran war is a mixed bag, both bad and good news
As the war in the Middle East spreads and intensifies, the one in Ukraine continues. While the two are geographically some 2,500km (1,600 miles) apart, the consequences of US president Donald Trump’s latest military adventure for the Russian war against Ukraine will be acutely felt across several areas. In the short term, the Kremlin will…
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CAS cuts sanctions on players involved in Malaysia scandal to official-match bans
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday eased sanctions on seven footballers who played for Malaysia using falsified naturalisation documents, ruling they will serve a 12-month suspension from official matches only. Deportivo Alaves’ Facundo Garces was among seven players banned for a year by Fifa in September, after football’s governing body found that…
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Maggie Gyllenhaal Loved Those The Bride! Test Screenings: The Fantasy of It Being Some Horrible Thing Is Inaccurate
“What do you mean by wild?” Maggie Gyllenhaal has been hearing a lot of reactions to The Bride! like mine lately. The actress-turned-filmmaker understands that label being used for her punk-infused, sensual and decadently designed revisionist take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and James Whale’s subsequent 1935 classic film Bride of Frankenstein. She made it with…
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Moment of reckoning needed in social care, says Louise Casey
In her speech, she described two NHS hospital trusts that tried to set up their own care services but discovered they could not make it “stack up” financially because anyone working in the NHS is better paid, and has better terms and conditions, than care staff.
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Tony Best Musical Winners The Outsiders and Maybe Happy Ending Heading to the Pantages
The Outsiders and Maybe Happy Ending, the past two recipients of the Tony Award for best musical, are coming to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, the Nederlander Organization announced Thursday. The 2026-27 Broadway in Hollywood schedule also features four other recent best musical Tony nominees — Water for Elephants, Buena Vista Social Club, Operation Mincemeat…
